A gas explosion killed 20 people while the miners tried to mine coal secretly, AFP reports: The blast occurred Sunday night as a group of people attempted to extract coal from the mine in Shanxi province, Xinhua news agency...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Earnings at Chinese banks will probably be hit this year by the snowballing U.S. subprime mortgage crisis and Beijing’s moves to cool the economy, the president of the country’s sixth-biggest bank said on Monday. “We have to be very realistic: we are facing many challenges this year which are not only from home […]
Read MoreThe death of Wei Wenhua, and subsequent public outrage, has inspired heads of the “urban management forces” (城管) to speak out: Heads of China’s nationwide urban inspection force have openly criticized their officers for beating to death a bystander man who filmed a protest, in a rare admission of abuse of power. Over 100 local […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Beijing plans to make an example of celebrities who flout China’s one-child policy by dramatically raising fines to prevent them buying their way past the rule, state media said Monday. “Celebrities and wealthy people will be more heavily fined for giving birth to more than one child,” Xinhua news agency quoted city family […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Many Chinese retain a God-like admiration for Mao, crediting him with uniting the country after the Communist Party’s defeat of U.S.-backed Nationalists in the 1945-1949 civil war. But historians have blamed Mao’s tumultuous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution for the deaths of millions through famines caused by disastrous economic policies and the […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Most people in this country of 1.3 billion still do not own a car. For example, in Beijing, a city of 16 million people, there are just slightly more than 3 million cars. But car ownership in China has grown by 300 percent in just six years. The capital’s roads and […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: China presents a tantalising commercial opportunity for web publishers, and with the Beijing Olympics on the horizon, breaking the territory’s internet market is a high priority. The government-run China Internet Network Information Center recently predicted that China will shortly overtake the US to become the world’s biggest internet market. By the end […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Howard French writes about the gaps in China between capitalism and communism, rich and poor, and urban and rural lives: At a casual glance, the giant boomtowns of the country’s east seem very much like first world cities, with the dizzyingly rapid proliferation of skyscrapers and expressways, shopping malls and […]
Read MoreBefore the founding of the People’s Republic, people with leprosy were killed to prevent them from spreading the disease to others. In the 1950s, this disease could be cured and in the 1980s, medicines were handed out to leprosy patients for free. Even though the disease can be cured, the lasting effects, and discrimination, still […]
Read MoreFrom NewKerala.com: New Delhi, Jan 20: India outperformed China in emerging equity market which in turn outperformed that of developed equity market in 2007, according to a leading provider of financial market intelligence. Standard and Poor’s global stock market review for 2007 said Indian stock market gave a return of 80.85 per cent to investors […]
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People waiting in a train station to go back home, via fengniao.com
From AP via News.com.au: Chines authorities have covered up the deaths of at least 10 workers in their rush to finish the Olympic stadium for the games that get underway on August 8, it was reported overnight. According to the Sunday Times newspaper Chinese officials have effectively bought off the families of the dead workers […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Blog, original text by Laohumiao, translated by Meng Zhang: Beijing, the host of 2008 Summer Olympics that has been prettified to be the highest honor and dream of the whole country, is trying to show every bright aspect of its stable and harmonious to the whole world, however, when you are almost […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The International Herald Tribune: Wu Qixin left a veterinary career for the money-spinning world of Chinese property in September only to find that a five-year market boom was on its last legs. Steps by the Chinese government to cool a frenzied residential market are finally biting and are likely to usher in […]
Read MoreThames Town, a British-style development outside Shanghai, by Marc van der Chijs
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